Yearbooks

Do you buy year books for your kids? If so, do you do one for each kid or just one to share? I do enjoy going back on my yearbooks and looking through them which makes me tempted even though it’s not a minimal thing to have..trying to decide what to do-they have a presale for cheaper right now so if I am going to do it I’d like to do it now!

I think it depends on your child. Some people enjoy being able to look back on their school years and see how they and their friends changed through the years. Some people don’t really want to. I didn’t really have friends in school, so I had no reason to keep my yearbooks. My mom has my old school photos if my kids want to see what I looked like.

I will probably buy one yearbook each year and let the kids divvy them up between themselves. That way no one is burdened with a dozen yearbooks, but they have one from every few years to see how they and their friends grew. I’m confident that as adults they will have no problem purging them if they are no longer wanted.

I don't see much of a point with social media now. I tossed all of mine ...

Posted
11/25/2018

I don't see much of a point with social media now. I tossed all of mine years ago.

I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me. Maybe because I was an adult before social media got so big, so my school years are not immortalized digitally. My kids’ will definitely be though. Maybe I won’t bother with yearbooks at all. Maybe by the time my kids are in high school they won’t even be a thing anymore.

I will buy them, and they can do with them what they wish. When I was teaching, I always felt so bad for the kids that didn't have a yearbook at the end of the year. It was usually only a handful, and some kids cried. I know all kids are different, so I'm sure some don't care, but I plan on buying them when my kids are old enough.

I tossed all of mine when I moved out of my parents home without much thought.
(13 years ago) about 2 years ago my mom came across 2 more and I tossed those again with no issue.
I went to a HUGE elementary school (we had 250 kids in my graduating class)
HUGE high school (1,500 in my graduating class)
Sad to say but I had no connection with most, my group of friends and acquaintances I pretty much lost touch with over the years.

As others have said with social media I feel like now it’s truly pointless.

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